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Minimum price systemSpecification of the lowest price permitted for an import. Prices below the minimum may trigger a tariff, hence a variable levy, or quota. See maximum price systerm. These have several names: basic import price, minimum import price, reference price, and trigger price.Similar MatchesMinimum import priceMinimum import priceSee minimum price system. Minimum maintenanceMinimum maintenanceThe minimum amount of equity which must be kept in a margin account as specified by the New York Stock Exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers and brokerage firms. Minimum funding requirementMinimum funding requirementA rule introduced in the wake of the Maxwell pensions scandal which was intended to ensure that company pensions funds always had enough assets to pay out their liabilities (i.e. pensions to retired members of the scheme).The legislation uses the yield from long term gilts as the yardstick by which a pensions fund's liabilities are measured. To stay within the rules, funds have felt obliged to buy these long-term bonds, with the result that their price has gone sky high.One alternative being considered is to change the whole way liabilities are valued and, in effect, to allow the funds to invest in more exciting securities than gilts, but to couple this with an insurance fund that bails out those funds that are unable to meet their liabilities. This insurance fund would be called the Central Discontinuance Fund (CDF). Minimum variance frontierMinimum variance frontierGraph of the lowest possible portfolio variance that is attainable for a given portfolio expected return. Minimum income guaranteeMinimum income guaranteeThe Minimum Income Guarantee tops up pensioners' incomes from the basic state pension. In the year 2003, the top up is to £102.10 a week for a single person to £155.80 for a couple.The MIG rises with wages inflation which tends to move faster than price inflation (on which the basic state pension is based) so in time the gap between the state pension and the MIG should grow.Anyone with assets over £12,000 is disqualified from the MIG. Further SuggestionsRequired minimum distribution (RMD)alternative minimum tax guaranteed minimum pension Minimum efficient scale minimum price fluctuation minimum lending rate Minimum maintenance Minimum variance portfolio Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) guaranteed minimum period minimum quote size |
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